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Author : Liliane Haegeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:849115719
Author : Liliane Haegeman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199858781
Uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages.
Author : Liliane Haegeman
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199858774
Uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages.
Author : Lobke Aelbrecht,Liliane M. V. Haegeman,Rachel Nye
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255730
Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages, with a particular focus on particles and agreement markers, complementizers and verb second, and the licensing of MCP in different types of clauses. Besides enriching the empirical domain, this volume also engages with the theoretical question of how best to capture the distribution of MCP and, in particular, to what extent they are embeddable and why. The diverse patterns and analyses presented challenge the idea that MCP constitute a homogeneous class. Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons is of interest not just to scholars specializing in the study of MCP, but to all linguists interested in the syntax and/or semantics of the clause.
Author : Lobke Aelbrecht,Liliane Haegeman,Rachel Nye
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273659
Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages, with a particular focus on particles and agreement markers, complementizers and verb second, and the licensing of MCP in different types of clauses. Besides enriching the empirical domain, this volume also engages with the theoretical question of how best to capture the distribution of MCP and, in particular, to what extent they are embeddable and why. The diverse patterns and analyses presented challenge the idea that MCP constitute a homogeneous class. Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons is of interest not just to scholars specializing in the study of MCP, but to all linguists interested in the syntax and/or semantics of the clause.
Author : Victor Junnan Pan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351655941
Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese offers a comprehensive survey on the fine structure of the sentence peripheral domain in Mandarin Chinese from a cartographic perspective. Different functional projections hosting sentence-final particles, implicit operators and other informational components are hierarchically ordered according to the "Subjectivity Scale Constraint" functioning at syntax-discourse interface. Three questions will be essentially addressed: What is the order? How to determine such an order? Why such an order? This research not only gives a thorough examination of the peripheral elements in Chinese but also improves the general understanding of the ordering issue in the left-periphery crosslinguistically. This book is aimed at scholars interested in Chinese syntax or generative syntax.
Author : Roland Pfau,Markus Steinbach,Annika Herrmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501503016
Since natural languages exist in two different modalities – the visual-gestural modality of sign languages and the auditory-oral modality of spoken languages – it is obvious that all fields of research in modern linguistics will benefit from research on sign languages. Although previous studies have provided important insights into a wide range of phenomena of sign languages, there are still many aspects of sign languages that have not yet been investigated thoroughly. The structure of subordinated clauses is a case in point. The study of these complex syntactic structures in the visual-gestural modality adds to our understanding of linguistic variation in the domain of subordination. Moreover, it offers new empirical and theoretical evidence concerning possible structures and functions of subordination in natural languages. And last but not least, it answers the question to what extent the corresponding morphosyntactic and prosodic strategies depend on the modality of articulation and perception. This volume represents the first collection of papers by leading experts in the field investigating topics that go beyond the analysis of simple clauses. It thus contributes in innovative ways to recent debates about syntax, prosody, semantics, discourse structure, and information structure and their complex interrelation.
Author : Horst Lohnstein,Antonios Tsiknakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501508141
This book addresses a general phenomenon in the European languages: verb second. The articles provide a comprehensive survey of synchronic vs. diachronic developments in the Germanic and Romance languages. New theoretical insights into the interaction of the properties of verbal mood and syntactic structure building lead to hypotheses about the mutual influence of these systems. The diachronic change in the syntax together with changes in the inflectional system show the interdependence between the syntactic and the inflectional component. The fact that the subjunctive can license verb second in dependent clauses reveals further dependencies between these subsystems of grammar. "Fronting finiteness" furthermore constitutes an instance of a main clause phenomenon. Whether "assertion" or "at-issueness" are encoded through this grammatical process will be a matter in the debates discussed in the book. Moreover, information structure appears to be directly related to the fronting of other constituents in front of the finite verb. Questions concerning the interrelations between these various subcomponents of the grammatical system are investigated.
Author : Valéria Molnár,Verner Egerland,Susanne Winkler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504488
This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The purpose of the volume is to discuss the universal properties of topics and, at the same time, to document the range of discourse-semantic and grammatical variation within this phenomenon in European languages. The volume is structured accordingly: (i) theoretical foundations of topicality in grammar and discourse; (ii) discourse-semantic correlates of topicality; (iii) variation in the grammatical (external and internal) encoding of topicality; (iv) topics from the diachronic perspective. The articles take different perspectives, including contrastive studies of modern languages, studies on diachronic development, and typological generalizations. They also take into consideration various types of empirical data – introspective data, semi-spontaneously produced data, experimental data and language corpora. The articles in this volume show that the concept of topic is necessary for the description and explanation of a number of discourse-semantic phenomena. They present a state of the art account of the architecture of topic while making recent research on the phenomenon accessible to a wider readership.
Author : Julia Bacskai-Atkari
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104215
This book provides a novel analysis for the syntax of the clausal left periphery, focusing on various finite clause types and especially on embedded clauses. It investigates how the appearance of multiple projections interacts with economy principles and with the need for marking syntactic information overtly. In particular, the proposed account shows that a flexible approach assuming only a minimal number of projections is altogether favourable to cartographic approaches. The main focus of the book is on West Germanic, in particular on English and German, yet other Germanic and non-Germanic languages are also discussed for comparative purposes.
Author : Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192526823
This volume provides the first book-length study of the controversial topic of Verb Second and related properties in a range of Medieval Romance varieties. It presents an examination and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data from Old French, Occitan, Sicilian, Venetian, Spanish, and Sardinian, in order to assess whether these were indeed Verb Second languages. Sam Wolfe argues that V-to-C movement is a point of continuity across all the medieval varieties - unlike in the modern Romance languages - but that there are rich patterns of synchronic and diachronic variation in the medieval period that have not previously been observed and investigated. These include differences in the syntax-pragmatics mapping, the locus of verb movement, the behaviour of clitic pronouns, the syntax of subject positions, matrix/embedded asymmetries, and the null argument properties of the languages in question. The book outlines a detailed formal cartographic analysis of both the attested synchronic patterns and the diachronic evolution of Romance clausal structure. The findings have widespread implications for the understanding of both the key typological property of Verb Second and the development of Latin into the modern Romance languages.
Author : Sam Wolfe,Martin Maiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198840176
This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data can be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic variation and change, yet, as the volume demonstrates, non-standard and comparative Gallo-Romance data have often been lacking in both synchronic and diachronic studies. Following an introduction that sets out the conceptual background, the volume is divided into three parts whose chapters explore a variety of topics in the domains of sentence structure, the verb complex, and word structure. The empirical foundation of the volume is exceptionally rich, drawing on standard and non-standard data from French, Occitan, Francoproven�al, Picard, Wallon, and Norman. This diversity is also reflected in the theoretical and conceptual approaches adopted, which span traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal morphological and syntactic theory, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and (Gallo-) Romance linguistics as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004402911
This collection of articles by an international group of specialists presents original research, new lines of inquiry, and novel insights on subjects related to ancient Hebrew linguistics, Bible translation, and biblical interpretation.
Author : Andrew Radford
Publisher : Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108428057
A brilliant analysis of colloquial English, both its syntax and its variations, using novel data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts and the internet.
Author : Javier Fernández-Sánchez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261694
In recent years, a number of authors (De Vries 2009, Truckenbrodt 2015, Ott and de Vries 2016, inter alia) have defended that right dislocations (RD) should be treated as bisentential structures, where the “dislocated” constituent is actually a remnant of a clausal ellipsis operation licensed under identity with an antecedent clause. Although Romance RD is a fertile area of research, the consequences of the biclausal analysis remain unexplored in these languages. This monograph intends to fill this gap. Adopting this approach not only solves some issues that have always been at the core of dislocation structures in general; it also allows us to uncover novel sets of data and to provide straightforward explanations for well-known generalizations. Further, it brings RD along with a set of phenomena which are structurally very similar, like afterthoughts or split questions, which have been independently argued to display a bisentential structure. Under alternative, monoclausal approaches to RD, the striking similarities between these phenomena must be rendered anecdotal.